A sidebar to the article “A first look at Lisa,” published in Personal Computing, issue 3/1983, pp. 87.

Icons are graphic symbols Lisa uses to show you what programs (tools) and data files (documents) are available. For illustration, samples of Lisa icons are arranged on the desktop in this photograph. The top row contains stationery pads used when you want to create a new document for any of the six applications. The next row contains sample document icons. The third row contains icons for the application tools. Row four consists of a folder of budget-related documents, a folder pad, a clipboard for moving data from one document to another, a calculator to be used in place of an ordinary desktop calculator, a clock for displaying time in analog or digital form, and the Preferences tool for altering various operating characteristics of Lisa. On the bottom row are icons for a hard disk, a floppy disk, and the wastebasket (where recently discarded information is kept).